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Jungle Book on Friday

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Ilona | 22 Comments

I was chatting on Twitter and Bagheera came up. For me Bagheera is a girl. Here you go. Click on the title of the post for the video. She shows up at 8:00 minutes.

Filed Under: Fun

Peer Critique

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Ilona | 21 Comments

I’ve read an interesting blog post today. In it, the author outlined her reasons for why she would and wouldn’t beta read someone’s manuscript. Her reasons are personal to her and this is one of those times where I have to tread carefully, as there is no one way of doing things. So please don’t Read More →

Filed Under: Writing

If you received a weird php hosting email from me…

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Ilona | 5 Comments

Update 2: Never mind. Ignore the messages. A few months ago I was exploring options to change the method of email delivery of the blog posts and tried a phpList hosted account. It didn’t work out, but I kept it as a back up, because the Feedburner days are numbered. Apparently they decided to send Read More →

Filed Under: Admin

Funny Things My Kids Say and Internet Videos

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Ilona | 107 Comments

Kid 1, after sleeping over at a friend’s house: I went to church today. Neighbor across the street: I’m shocked. Kid 1: I know, right? My flesh started burning and everything. *** Kid 2. after reading Ender’s Game: I did not see this coming. I’ve read the end and it was like POOF! My mind Read More →

Filed Under: Fun, Just Life

Magic Rises: Our Appearance Schedule

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Ilona | 60 Comments

Our publisher is arranging some appearances for the release of Magic Rises. Right now the schedule looks like this: July 31-Murder By The Book (Houston, TX) Aug 1-Book People (Austin, TX) Aug 3-Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) Specific times and online order information for signed copies will be added as we get it.

Filed Under: Publishing News

Tentative UK Covers

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Ilona | 109 Comments

As promised, we’re working on bringing Kate Daniels series to UK, unfortunately only in ebook at this time. Here are the tentative covers. Please be nice. I have to work with the existing stock and it doesn’t always cooperate. I do wish the photographer had taken a shot of the model where she was shown Read More →

Filed Under: Kate Daniels, Work

New Beginning

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Ilona | 43 Comments

Today is a weird day. Today is the day I clean out and archive Clean Sweep and Magic Rises. I’ve learned to do this over the years. As we work, we generate several drafts. things get cut and moved about. In the end there are fifty million versions of everything floating a round on Skydrive, Read More →

Filed Under: Work

Goodbye, Clean Sweep

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Ilona | 25 Comments

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The exciting conclusion: Chapter 16, Part 2 Chapter 16, Part 3 Goodbye Post

Filed Under: Free Fiction

Tanya Huff’s Valor Series

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Ilona | 106 Comments

I read widely and one of my favorite genres is military SF. Unfortunately a lot of the military SF now reads cookie cutter. Insect/Reptile/Cat-like aliens clash with Human Space Navy/Marines. I blame John Ringo. Not that John Ringo did anything to bring this about except write very many military SF books, but you have to Read More →